"With a Constitution differing only from that of our fathers in so far as it is explanatory of their well-known intent, freed from the sectional conflicts which have interfered with the pursuit of the general welfare, it is not unreasonable to expect that States from which we have recently parted may seek to unite their fortunes with ours under the government which we have instituted."

This statement from February of 1861 would have been MOST likely to have been made

A) by Abraham Lincoln at his second Presidential inauguration.
B) by Abraham Lincoln as he dedicated the National Cemetery in Gettysburg.
C) by Jefferson Davis at his inauguration as President of the Confederate States of
America
D) by Robert E. Lee as he surrendered his troops to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.